Car crashes into Richmond bubble tea shop while backing into parking stall

A car backing into a stall suddenly slammed into a bubble tea shop, narrowly avoiding pedestrians walking behind the vehicle.

Richmond RCMP responded to reports of a collision Saturday around 6:15 pm in a strip mall parking lot near Hazelbridge and Capstan Way.

A surveillance video of the incident was shared online over the weekend. In it, viewers can see a white vehicle attempting to back into a parking stall directly in front of Bubble World in Union Square. Meanwhile, pedestrians can be seen walking along a sidewalk behind the car.

Full video posted to Reddit: 

Full video of car backing into bbtea store
byu/Quattrobaj inrichmondbc

For nearly 50 seconds of the 1:30-minute video, the driver drives forward and reverses several times as they try to fit their vehicle in the stall.

However, around the 53-second mark, the vehicle can be seen accelerating backwards into the front of the bubble tea shop, just barely missing a pedestrian who was startled and swiftly moved away from the crash scene.

“It was reported that a vehicle attempting to park struck an unoccupied parked vehicle and then accelerated into a business,” RCMP added in a statement.

Mounties confirmed that no one reported injuries, and officers spoke to everyone involved in the crash.